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Answering questions from an airbase in Afghanistan, Gustavo Coutin explains the career's appeal, weighs in on what it takes and highlights some health IT-related opportunities.
Shortly after the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) recommended that the United States adopt ICD-10, the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) assembled a session on the code scheme for its annual conference. The last-minute addition was so late, in fact, that the MGMA did not have time to include it on the printed agenda, and the only available time slot was 7 a.m.
With the telehealth industry now in its second decade, the number of procedures for which payers will reimburse providers is still a very short list ¬– and it isn’t growing quickly.
Imagine your marching orders are to link networking and telepresence across a wide array of hardware platforms and software applications to enable telemedicine with both voice and visual capabilities as far forward as possible into the remotest battlefield regions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Well, that’s only part of what LTC William Geesey and The U.S. Army’s Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) unit are doing. The pieces already include telesurgery and telebehavioral health services. Geesey spoke with Government Health IT Editor Tom Sullivan about what MC4 has accomplished to date, and what it is looking to achieve in the near future.
Mobile apps that guide people to the nearest emergency care clinic or specialist. Texting programs that remind those with chronic conditions to monitor their health. Bicycles that keep track of one’s vital signs. Teddy bears that can “send” hugs to family members.
Alaska’s telehealth program is marching forward on the back of a device affectionately known as the “turtle.”
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced new recommendations and initiatives on Monday to support health text messaging and mobile health (mHealth) programs.
Some of the most devastating tornadoes and floods in U.S. history have occurred in just the last two years. IT professionals who survived the storms say their technology held up well. They felt lucky to have paperless systems in place.
Just two days after announcing its acquisition of assets from Southlake, Texas-based CySolutions, Greenway Medical Technologies is making more news: the expansion of its Georgia headquarters and the addition of some 400 jobs.
With PACS and other diagnostic imaging files quickly diminishing healthcare data storage capacities, providers are scrambling to find a much larger repository to handle their needs. More and more, that means gravitating toward the cloud, IT vendors say.